Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited

Foxconn (kunshan) Computer Connector Co., Ltd.

Hong-Wei Liu

Jian-Kuang Zhu

Wei Zhong

Dan Qu

An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing; two rows of contacts retained in the insulative housing, each contact having an elastic arm and a soldering tail; a shielding assembly retained in the insulative housing and located between the two rows of contacts; plural cables having front ends connected with the soldering tails of corresponding contacts; a first shell covering the insulative housing; and a second shell and a third shell, wherein the second shell has a pair of side frame portions located by end faces of the insulative housing and a rear plate, the third shell has a front frame portion and a rear plate, and the front frame portion and the rear plate of the third shell and the rear plate of the second shell together entirely enclose and shield the soldering tails of the contacts and the front ends of the cables.

Electrical connector with three metal shells joined together

An electrical assembly is composed of a receptacle connector and a plug connector adapted to be mated with each other. The plug connector includes an elongated insulative housing forming a receiving space rearwardly recessed from a front mating face thereof with a pair of forwardly extending guiding posts respectively located at two opposite longitudinal ends of said receiving space in the longitudinal direction. A plurality of contacts are disposed in the housing with corresponding contacting sections exposed in the receiving space. A metallic shield is rearwardly assembled upon the housing from a front side of the housing with a pair of bending sections each inserted into the corresponding retaining recess which is terminated behind the front mating face in the front-to-back direction.

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Kunshan, China

Hong-Wei Liu